Hat-fastener.



PATENTED OCT. 1'7, 1905.

H. G. TAYLOR,

HAT FASTENER.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 13. 1904.

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HENRY GEORGE AYLOR, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed September 13, 1904- gerial No. 224,308.

To all whom it may cancer/1 Be it known that i, I- nNnY Gnonen TAYLOR, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at High street, Milton, (station of Boston,) in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in I"lat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hat-fasteners designed especially for securing a hat in position upon the head of the wearer, and has for its objects to produce a comparative simple inexpensive device of this character which may be readily adjusted for securely clamping the hat in position and one wherein the parts may be moved to and retained in non-clamping position at the will of the wearer.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combina tion of parts more fully hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion of a hat having my improved device applied thereto and illustrating the same in use. Fig. 52 is a perspective View of the fastener removed from the hat. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same showing the parts in non-clamping position. Fig. 1 is a central longitudinal section through the fastener illustrating the parts in clamping position.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a hat, and 2 the improved clamping device arranged thereinfor securing the hat upon the head 3 of the wearer.

The deviceQcomprises a base plate or member i and a clamping plate or member 5, pivoted at its longitudinal center, as at 6, between ears 7, upstruck from the base-plate and angularly bent at its pivotal point, as shown, whereby the upper and lower portions of the clamp extend at a slight angle one to the other, whereby when one portion of the clampingplate lies flush upon the base the other portion will project angularly therefrom, as seen more clearly in Figs. 3 and 4. The base-plate a has its lower portion or section perforated at intervals, as at 8, for the reception of stitches or other fastening means to secure it in the hat and its upper section provided with inturned longitudinal flanges or guides 9, which receive the ends of a spring-retaining member or clip 10, designed to slide back and forth longitudinally of the base and clampingplates for maintaining the latter in active engaging position or to permit a leaf-spring 11, disposed between the adjacent faces of the upper portions of the plates to act for maintaining the clamping plate in inactive or non-engaging position. The normally lower or active portion of the clamping-plate 5 may be provided with a series of perforations to permit a pad or cover 12 of some suitable soft material being readily secured to the plate.

In practice the device is properly secured in the hat 1 at the front thereof, and when it is desired to secure the hat upon the head the member 10 is moved upward longitudinally of the plates, thereby bringing the upper por tion of the clamping-plate into contact with the adjacent face of the base-plate and at the same time compressing and maintaining in such condition the spring 11. This operation causes the lower portion of the clampingplate 5 to swing outward from the adjacent portion of the base-plate to the engaging or retaining position, as illustrated in Fig. 4. hen, however, the retaining member 10 is moved to thepositionillustrated in Fig. 2, the spring 11 expands, thereby forcing the upper portion of the clamping-plate outward from the base-plate and the lower portion of the clanmingplate inward to inactive or nonengaging position, as illustrated in Fig. 3.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I produce a simple inexpensive device which in practice will firmly secure a hat in position upon the head of the wearer and one wherein the parts of the device may be readily manipulated to assume the clamping or nonclamping position, it being understood that in attaining these ends minor changes in the details herein set forth may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a hat-fastener, a base-plate having perforations to receive fastening means for securing it to a hat, a clamping-plate pivoted at a point between its ends to the base-plate, said clampingdate being angularly bent on a transverse line at its pivotal point to produce a pair of portions disposed at an appropriate angle relative to each other and adapting the clamping-plate to rock on its axis, a spring disposed between the base-plate and the normally upper angular portion and tending to move the lower portion to non-clamping position, and a retaining member connected with the base-plate and adapted for operation to move the clamping-plate against the action of the spring to clamping position.

2. In a hat-fastener, a base-plate comprisand a clip slida-bly disposed over the iipper portion of the clamping-plate and having its ends engaged with the side flanges on the base-plate, said clip being movable formaintaining the clamping-plate in clainping position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY GEORGE TAYLOR. Witnesses:

HORACE R. CRANE, J OHN A. DOROTHY. 

